Matt Backert Founded the Maryland Baseball Club in 2016 after managing multiple travel programs. He is currently the Head Baseball Coach at NCAA Division 3 Notre Dame of Maryland University. He has over 17 years of experience coaching at the College, High School, and Travel/Club levels. Prior to coaching he was a two sport athlete at Neumann University in PA, where he played both soccer and baseball, earning conference honors in both sports. Coach Backert spent almost a decade overseeing the youth baseball operations for Ripken Baseball where he was responsible for creating and implementing many of Cal and Bill Ripken's instructional programs. This included running coaching clinics and camps both domestically as well as internationally in places such as China and Nicaragua, as well as their tournament operations.